Circe

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.15 Aeaean Circe

  The witch of Aeaea, mistress of transformations, whose 'arts' could turn the poet into the ring he sends.

• The Art of Love §2.5 Circe

  The enchantress who detained Ulysses on her island but could not hold his love by magic.

• Letters from the Black Sea §3.1 Telegonus's parent

  Circe, the enchantress mother of Telegonus, who transformed men into beasts; named among shape-changing, dangerous women unlike Livia.

• The Festivals §4.proem Circe

  The enchantress whose name clings to a coastal promontory of Latium.

• Metamorphoses §13.428 Titanian Circe

  Circe, the sorceress daughter of the Sun, whose halls the rejected Glaucus seeks (leading into Book 14).

• Metamorphoses §14.447 Titanian Circe

  Circe as a Titaness -- daughter of the Sun (Sol), himself a Titan; the epithet underlines her descent and her command of the powers of light she now perverts.

• The Cure for Love §9 Circe

  Daughter of the Sun (here 'daughter of Perse,' Perseïs), the enchantress of Aeaea who turned Ulysses' men to swine yet could not cure her own love when he sailed.